List of Bow Tie Wearers - Bow Tie Wearers in The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries - Politicians

Politicians

The regular wearing of bow ties by a politician is often the subject of comment — from friends, foes and journalists:

  • Thomas J. Bliley, Jr. (born 1932), former U.S. Representative from Virginia.
  • Earl Blumenauer (born 1948), U.S. Representative from Oregon, wears "his trademark bow tie"
  • Winston Churchill, British statesman, prime minister, Nobel Literature Prize laureate
  • Tom Connally, U.S. Senator from Texas.
  • Mo Cowan, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
  • Elio Di Rupo, Belgian prime minister, once described by a reporter as "the bow tie wearing Socialist"
  • Christian Herter, Governor of Massachusetts, U.S. Secretary of State.
  • Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia, is "well-known for always sporting his trademark bow tie"; has even been "dubbed an 'American in a bow tie' by his opponents".
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator from New York, whom Hillary Clinton remembered in a speech as having had "three signature items: his horn rimmed glasses, a bow tie, and a great idea"
  • Donald M. Payne, Jr., U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
  • Lester B. Pearson, Canadian prime minister, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, "with his trademark blue polka dot blue" bow tie
  • Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States.
  • Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech politician, foreign minister.
  • George P. Shultz (born 1920), U.S. Secretary of Labor, the Treasury, and State, consistently wore bow ties in the early 1970s
  • Paul Simon, U.S. senator from Illinois
  • Donald Tsang, former Chief Executive of Hong Kong — "The bow tie is such an integral part of Tsang's identity that he is nicknamed "bow tie Tsang," according to an Associated Press story
  • Julio César Turbay Ayala, president of Colombia from 1978 to 1982.
  • Daniel Turp, Canadian Parti Québécois politician, formerly known ffor wearing bow ties.
  • Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian statesman
  • Anthony A. Williams, former mayor of Washington, D.C. and nicknamed "Mr. Bow Tie"
  • G. Mennen Williams, former Governor of the State of Michigan.
  • Woodrow Wyatt, a British Labour politician, published author, journalist and broadcaster

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